Issue 114, October 1998
Who's lowering higher education?
The learn-little society
Universities are under fire for all the wrong reasons, argue Jennie Bristow and Kirsten de la Haye. The one thing the critics ignore is the intellectual impoverishment of today's 'learning society'
Intellectual poverty
Bribing universities into recruiting more working class students is patronising, says Brendan O'Neill
Professional mockery
Justine Brian's City & Guilds cookery qualification left a bitter taste in her mouth
Freshers scares
Hugh Peto and Barry Curtis advise the new student intake to make the most of the next three years - by ignoring all the 'safety advice' they get
4 Mick Hume: Stop the sobbing
6 LM-Mail
8 Taboos: What's wrong with abortion for abnormality? Ellie Lee
11 Opinion: Ann Bradley
12 Lowering higher education Jennie Bristow, Kirsten de la Haye, Brendan O'Neill, Justine Brian
15 Freshers scares Hugh Peto, Barry Curtis
17 After Omagh Kevin Rooney
18 Anti-racist education is a failure Linda Bellos
19 Sun, sea and...sue Charlotte Reynolds
20 Russia: no market for reforms Tracey Brown
22 Cult is a four-letter word Brendan O'Neill
24 A Third Way to where? Linda Ryan
27 Labour: pandering to Scottish self-pity Allan Massie
28 London mayor means less Mick Spencer
30 How 'feminised' is the mother of parliaments now? Sally Millard
32 Second opinion: Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
34 Euro food regulation: poisonous dummies Bill Durodié
36 Futures: Who's afraid of radiation? Dr David Hall
38 alt.culture.lm
Patrick Hughes' Perverspective; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
42 LM Classified
43 Reading between the lines
The end of sovereignty in Bosnia?; The American dream in Britain